Assembly Bill A5959

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that members of N.Y. city community boards need only be 16 years of age to be appointed to such board

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A5959 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3995
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L; amd §2800, NYC Chart
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8749, A411, S807, S4483
2013-2014: A2448, S4142

2011-A5959 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that members of community boards in NYC need only be 16 years of age to be appointed to such board.

2011-A5959 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5959

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 3, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  KAVANAGH,  JEFFRIES, WRIGHT, LANCMAN, SPANO,
  CAMARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED, HEASTIE, MOLINARO,
  PHEFFER, TOBACCO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
  mental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the New York  city  charter,
  in  relation  to  allowing  certain  individuals  to become members of
  community boards in the city of New York

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended by chapter 44 of the  laws  of  1982,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
at  the time he OR SHE shall be chosen thereto, have attained the age of
eighteen years, except that in the case of youth boards,  youth  commis-
sions  [or],  recreation commissions, OR COMMUNITY BOARDS IN THE CITY OF
NEW YORK only, members of such boards or commissions may  be  under  the
age  of  eighteen years, but must have attained the age of sixteen years
on or before appointment to such youth  board,  youth  commission  [or],
recreation  commission, OR COMMUNITY BOARD IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, be a
citizen of the United States, a resident of the state, and if  it  be  a
local  office,  a  resident  of  the  political subdivision or municipal
corporation of the state for which he OR SHE shall be chosen, or  within
which  the  electors  electing him OR HER reside, or within which his OR
HER official functions are required to be exercised, or who  shall  have
been  or shall be convicted of a violation of the selective draft act of
the United States, enacted May eighteenth, nineteen  hundred  seventeen,
or the acts amendatory or supplemental thereto, or of the federal selec-
tive  training  and  service  act  of nineteen hundred forty or the acts
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00983-01-1

              

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